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With each word, your tenderness grows, tearing my fears apart. And that laugh, that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart. Your lovely, with your smile so warm and your cheek so soft, there is nothing for me but to love you.

Frank Sinatra

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Louis Pasteur

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Germaine Greer

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.

Robert Southey

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

Henry Fielding

My practice is limited to jaw disorders, ... so as a result I poked around a lot and I found tenderness occurred often, and when I looked at the history, these were always headache patients.

Mark Friedman

And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness.

William Forrest Winter

A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Marjorie Holmes

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

Saint Francis de Sales

Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit.

McCallister Dodds

The challenge with the quality grade issue is that it is not very well correlated with one of the most important consumer characteristics and that is tenderness.

Ted Schroeder

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.

Kahlil Gibran

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henry Youngman

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

They want to have a fabulous listener, they want sweet tenderness and no sense that you are in a hurry.

Patch Adams

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Robert Hass

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

Those symptoms included burning, tingling, itching, tenderness and pain.

Fred Aoki

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;/ Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,/ And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

Wilfred Owen

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Kahlil Gibran

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

Ambrose Bierce

Patience, lots of praise, tenderness and perseverance, plus a cookie, work wonders.

Bob Arnold

Those black eyes I once so praisedNow are hard and sharp and cold;Where's the love that through them blazed?Where's the tenderness of old?

William Wetmore Story

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Marlene Dietrich

Theoretically those are the four hardest meats to cook as far as tenderness and trying to get your meat to come through.

Mark Hyman

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Thomas De Quincey

Dada covers things with an artificial tenderness. It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a prophet's head.

Tristan Tzara